PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

The tide is flowing again ; the week having produced some thirty publications of various kinds, several of the most important having reached us at too late a period even to glance at. Among these are in history, Major Porter's "Knights of Malta," and the long-expected narrative of Lord Dundonald's, or why not say Lord Cochrane's, Services in South America. The Reverend T. W. Blakesley's "Four Months in Algeria," also has a look of promise about it. Of the remainder, Mr. Morley's "Bartholomew Fair," and the " Me- moirs of Beckford of Fonthill, are noticed. The rest are mostly of no great promise, either from the expectation of great literary ability, or the attraction of their subjects. The broad exception in both points is Louis Blanc's tenth volume of the "Histoire de la Revolution Francaise " ; but there is no novelty in so well known and let us say, so justly ap- preciated a work. The subject of the volume, however, is one of an un- dyingand terrible interest—the Reign of Terror. The other books are of two classes. Those belonging to the first class are of a popular character, from their authors or their subjects, or both together, whatever they may turn out in themselves. We hove- l. The celebrated and powerful Dr. Guthrie's volume of Sermons on Christ and the Inheritance of the Saints. 2. Dr. Doran makes a selected series of oioturns a subject Soretrhufingtogethierfaiiecdotesicir hiatoriettea4 ahoy:tithe:Roust hie wanted style "Wit ;and, goisipe lieMeekFiteball, the "dramatist," has given to the world an account of hiseprofeisionale career not unmingled with the personal- feelings inseparably springing otihoM vre rather fear in theateical 'harmer. ; citiselooks are doubtless light reading enough. They are ha- lamed, ais.batefitting;b toughmoreels, and of a kiiitbrarelY fitted fer timi digestion of journalises, or their readers. The* Reverend Dr: Pine, Peeteeseriot•Dieinity:iu..the Univeraity, and Maritiebal .Qellegh, of Aber- den, Prodnilekaetweene six and- seven, hundred pages..of metaphysics in 'etu Inquiryinto.the Constitution,. Powers, and Processes pfethe l.lu- men Mind.' In briefer form, but with ediU.wider.rsage efieets, the Reverend George Jamieson, embraces tlee.whele qf metaphysics if not of nature, in his Fesentials of Philoaophy.

BOOKS.

aiStOry of the Knights of Malta. or the Order of the Hospital of St. Sohn of ,1Terustdera. 13y Major Whitworth Porter, Royal Engineers. In two volumes, jiirakhatire of Services in the Liberatioliof Chili,. Peimod Brasil, from Spanish -ee,,and .Portuguese Domination; by Thomas, Berl of Dandonald. G.C.134 Admiral Bee ; Beareadmiral f. the: Fleet, -84%, Ape-i lou two volumes. . Pour Months in Algeria; with a Visit to Carthage. By the Rev. Joseph Williams Blak.esley, Vicar of Ware. Heats; and sometime Fellow and Tutor u5lrof 'Trinity College; Cambridge. With Maps and Ilinitrations after Photo-

▪ graphs,

iMisswirs of Bartholoneetalair. By .Henry Marley. With Pao-simile Draw- ings, engraved upon wood, by the Brothers Dalziel.

Memoirs of William Beckford of Foothill, Author of " Vathek." In two volumes.

.Errstoire de la Rerolutionantildee- 1)M-41:I.-Louis Blanc. Tome diaieme.

Edition Frapcaise.

Christ and the Inheritanee of the Saints.Illustrated in a Series of Discourses

• frotri the Colossians. By Thomas Guthrie, D.D. Author of "Pleas for uRagged Schools," &c.

Atm Pictures. and Old. Panels. By Dr. Doran. Author of "Table Traits and something on them.-- • . Years of a 7),amatic Author's Life. By Edward Fitsball, Esg. Author of" Nitocris," Re., Re. In two volumes.

An Inquiry into the Constitution, Powers, and Processes of the Hunian Mind, with a view to the determination of the fundmnental principles of Re-

. ligious, Moral, and Political Science. By the Rey. W. R. Phis, D.D., Professor of Divinity in the University and Marischal College of Aberdeen, Dfurtle Lecturer, Re.

The Essentials of Philosophy; wherein its constituent principles are traced throughout the various departments of science; with analyticafstrictures On the views of some of our leading Philosophers. By the Rev. George Jamieson, M.A., one of the Ministers of the parish of Old Mather, Aberdeen,

If the production of prose fictions goes on at its present rate criticism must drop them, or they must have a journal devoted to themselves. The week has produced a dozen save one, though two of the batch are new editions. To review the whole in the usual way would require a space pretty much as g i

gat as can be devoted to books n general, to say nothing of the time. We must endeavour to give such a notion as may suffice for a reader's guidance, taking the possible chance of a return to the best if opportunity serves. Five of the eleven have the character of what may be termed novels proper, and, excluding the new edition of "Bever Hollow," the four, as it happens, are different in class or scene. "An Old Debt," by Florence Dawson, is what may be called a modern fiction; lords, mansions, "so- ciety," and the like' forming the media in which the persons and events are presented. Its distinguishing feature is literary ability, showing it- self rather in the narrative and descriptions, than in the dialogue, which is sometimes longwinded, and often deficient in dramatic terseness and strength. In "the Admiral's niece" we are carried to Nova Scotia and "the States" adjacent, but with pretty frequent interchanges of visits to Ragland. This gives a little freshness as regards scenery and occur- rences, but the elements, as well as the persons, are of the circulating library novel. One portion of the story has a sort of current interest from its relation to foreign gallants. The admiral's niece, a wicked self- -willed girl, elopes with a foreign adventurer, calling himself a Marquis. After the death of Kate and her child from want, this worthy hangs himself in jail, to save the public any trouble in that direction.

"The History of Moses Wimble" is designed to be a medley of fun, satire, and social adventure; but we fear its spirit of jocularity is of the "dead lively" kind. Of course, in this age, no one could very closely imitate Tristram Shandy, but Moses Wimble seems to have had Lawrence Sterne in his eye. Like most wags of his order he adumbrates his wit in a haze of words.

Fredrika Bremer in the "Father and Daughter "seems to think she has entered upon a new mode of composition by avoiding a mere love story; but such is hardly the case. Beyond most other novelists, the fair Swede has discarded, as a theme, the common love of romances, and made other passions, nay manners, the subject of her tales. This "portraiture from life" does not seem to us the happiest painting of the artist.

There are two fictions intended to exhibit colonial life and-nature in the form of adventures. The "Canadian Crusoes " is a second edition. The scene of "The Kangaroo Hunters," as may be inferred by the title is Australia ; the story narrates the adventures of a family of settlers including their servants, and describes the external features and living inhabitants of the region whether inan or beast. We have some doubts as to the accuracy of all the representations—witness the incident of the Boa and Kangaroo.

"The Curate of Cumberworth, and the Vicar of Roost," are a couple of tales, designed to exhibit the difficulties of clerical life, especially from disappointed and malicious laymen or laywomen, as well as some of its solaces. The stories are not very striking, or the writing very powerful.

"False Appearances" possesses a solid kind of merit with some of the reality which characterized the superior juvenile story of the old selmal It is a didactic tale, designed to exhibit the mischief of aiming to appear other than we really are, especially in worldly circumstances. Scenes exhibitive of various kinds of life are found in the volume ; but the main illustration is that of a merchant living beyond his means. Augusta Johnstone's volume of "A Few out of Thousands," consists or twenty tales or sketches, mostly descriptive of London life in a North- ern suburb. "Mark Dennis, or the Engine Driver," is a pleasing tale 9e,eAkeibieiseeiebeeiehikleeeme .nevelty isgiveellmtlletikertesifeeres 4i4lkec and perils-of;stvitway oreeupetipus, The mor4 iTtimAdAtv#Insc responsibility of drivers ; but the rateetrophe will appear to many need- les4Ysouth, !Rte..•• ..., 'le ete Piic.reebeee31}y,rorenee Dawsen. In two volurnes,oci The Maskers ,N4ree ; or a Tale of Nova Scotia. 411 co volumes. By Mrs.

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Edmund Irentheote. • 774e BrudmirtMg■Ses Wimblr. 11 mat Reaatile Advent ores, humour. Ph110- sOp*,'Coli . Of True Love, and extrierdliiiiit iGnikt Fortune. A Prose, • ...Dramatie„..and Lyrical Epic. Written hinliimselt,” Ilithen and ikeifikter Portraiture frour that dinsLi (by Fredrika Bremner, Au. thot to.E" The NeigIlhotwOhr: 4S. „ Translated. by 44g.rg gowitt. The Ladies of Bever Hollow.' a Tale of English Country Life. By the Author of Mary poefell." New edition, • ThelttlingaroolfunterSr; or Adventures Bv 'Anne Bowman, Au- .

Slier of" Eii§eramea."

Ctinntilan Ontsioes; a Tale of the Itice Lake Plains. By Catherine Parr Traill, Authoress of "Time Backwoods of Canada,"I eta. Edited by .A,gnes Stock- land. Illustrated by Harvey. Second eeleippe.3 The Curate of Cumberworth ; and the Flow offloosi. Tales by the Author of "The Owlet of Owlstone Edge," Re. .False Appearances. By Mrs. Mackay, ..kutlior of "The Family at Heather- A'Peurout of ThomMufs their Sayings and Doings, 13y Augusta Johnstone, Author of" Woman's Freachings for Woman's Practice."

.1/04 Dennis; or the Zogioe Driver. A Tale of the Railway. . • A Widow's Iteminixeenees of the Si4ge,of Luoknow.—This little volume is a touching memorial of private .suffering and sorrow' eaused by the Indian-mutiny ; and possesses something of a typical character, in ad- dition to its own interest; for hundreds must have gone through the anxieties, 'hardships, and agonies of Mrs. Bartrum, who have borne, or even "died and made no sign.". There is no now information in the narrative ; scarcely any hints even of the warlike portions of the siege of the city ; though there are a few indications of adycnture on the retreat after Lord Clyde's first advance, and during the writer's escape to Luck- now from the out-statiou where the mutiny surprid herself and her hus- band. The 1?emin1'5e■ decs contain an account of the daily struggles of gently bred ladies, with the sordid details of their position in crowded rooms, with scanty aid and scantiev food ; these physical ills, and no small danger of death or mutilation from the missiles of war, sinking into trifles, compared with the anxieties for the absent ; or cared for only as they tend to aceelerat: the decline of sick or wounded friends or relatives fading before their eyci. Of these troubles Mrs. Eartrum had her full share. Her husband, a medical officer, having joined the relieving force, was killed just before he would have entered the Residency her baby son, after struggling with foul, air) cir- cumstances food, and the other adverse c- cumstances of a siege, died just RS he was taken on board the vessel that was to convey him and his widowed mother to England. The whole has a quiet attraction, more touching in its simple ern_ f and religious resig- nation than louder-tongued troubles. Either from the fact of Mr. Bar- trum's death being unknown, or from no one having the heart to inform the widow of her loss she was three days expecting or seeking for her husband. Here are .eivo.

"September 26.—Was up with the daylight, and dressed myself and baby in the one clean dress which I had kept for him througheut the siege until his papa should come. I took him-out and met Mr. Freeling, who told me that dear Robert was just coming in, that they had been shariug the same tent on the march, and that he was in high spirits at the thought of meet- tine his wife and child again. I waited, expecting to see him, but he did noecome, so I gave baby his breakfast and sat at the door to watch for hins again full of happiness. I felt he was so near me that at any moment we might be together again: and here I watched for him nearly all day. In the evening I took baby up to the top of the Residency, to look down the road, but I could not see hins coming and returned back to my room dis- appointed.

"September 27.—Still watching for my husband, and still he came not, and my heart was growing very sick with anxiety. This afternoon Dr. Dar- by came to me: he looked so kindly and so sadly in my face, and I said to him, How strange it is my husband is not come in!' ' Yes,' he said, it is strange !' and turned round and went out of the room. Then the thought struck me. Something has happened which they do not like to tell me. But this was agony too great almost to endure, to hear that he had been struck down at our very gates."

Our Veterans of 1854; in Camp and before the Enemy, By a Regi- mental Officer.—This volume has appeared too lato.iin the day; for its subject is that of the Crimean war ; its style, tone, and ideas those of a newspaper correspondent; its facts, in the main, what everybody is already familiar with. he Regimental Officer starts with the Guards from London, accompanies them on their voyage to Malta and Constan- tinople, departs with them to Varna, and goes through the campaign up to the use of the great storm of November 1854. There is a species of smart vigour in the style, with characteristic touches of reality here and there. But the narrative is substantially that of a newspaper writer, with the same views of haste, temporary prejudices, and passing popular feeling, without the excuse of temporary excitement, or the attraction of temporary interest.

Alines Hares ; (dedicated, without permission, to the Freshmen and Dons of Oxford.) By Megathegm Splene, B.A., Oxon.—A series of letters on University society, discipline, and constitutions, prefaced by two letters to "freshmen" and "dons." From its title the 'book might seem limited to English Universities, but it extends to those of Germany, with a passing glance at France. There are some clever descriptive sketches of Oxford men and society, but in which the effort after smart writing predominates too much. There are also some as it strikes us more real pictures of German University life, which the author exalts over that of England. Evils, moreover, are pointed out and discussed, and remedies suggested. In some cases there is much justice in the remarks, as on the evil of the credit system, and various social dissipations, or peculiarities ; but they are not very new ; and the writer seems not sufficiently to discriminate between what should be done, what can be done, and what will be done of itself in time.

Hymns and Canticles used at Morning and Evening Prayer, plainly noted as a Chant-Service. By Josiah Pittman, Chapel-Master and Or- ganist to the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn.—A judicious effort to facilitate congregational singing as urged by the author in a former publication. Of course the book is equally applicable to family as to pfditie dnvotion; /in& indt.edfrabre so:, ' The- arrangobent ' is -Clear,- when thasipentiliar signs 'used art iattatered; Which iS, however, an, easy task.

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The great reprint of the week chronicles a sixtieth birthday, in the appearance of the " Postaffice Eintdon Directory," the most curious and the/lost extensive repertory or information in the world of its kind. What is more remarkable, the old soul still continues to keep pace with the age. The new numbering Of the streets by the Board of Works is given as Well as the old.; - members . of the Stock Exchange are distin- guished in.the list of stockbrokers from those who have not that status ; besides many other Minute belt to individual inquirers important parti- culars.

*r. Alderman Mee.hi, haying brought his farm at Tiptrec Hall into remunerative condition, has collected his various agricultural publica- tions-both of speech and print,: into a two-shilling volume whose birth Messrs: Routledge •superintend. Mr.- Piekering, the worthy son of an eminent sire, sends forth two new editions of poetical works in a style distinctive of the modern Aldi, as we may now say. One contains two early dramatic poems. by the late Sir Aubrey de Vere, collected into a sin& memorial volume. "A Song of Charity" and other poems, by E. J. Chapman, forms tho •second. The book, however, seems new to us; it appears to have a stead( of genuine poetry about it.

Post-Office London Directory, 1859. Comprising, amongst other information Official Directory; Street Directory; Commercial Directory ; Trades' Di- rectory; Law Directory ; Court Directory ; Parliamentary Directory ; Postal Directory; City Directory; Cauveyerice Directory ; Benicia; Directory, &c.

&e. The sixtieth An !nal Publication. •

Mr. Mechi's System of Farming. How to Farm profitably ; or the Sayings and Doings of Mr. AldermertMechi. With Illustrations.

Julian the Apostate and the Duke. Mercia. Historical Dames. By the late Sir Aubrey De Veer.

A Song of Charity. By E. J. Chapman. Second edition.

NEW SERIAL.

A Dictionary of Political Economy ; Biographical, Bibliographical, Historical, and Practical. Part I. By Henry Dunning Macleod, Esq., of the Inner Temple; Barrister-at-Law.— A simple dictionary of Political Economy would be in reality a series of treatises in the form of essays, done as soundly, plainly, and tersely, as the knowledge and abilities of the compiler would allow. Its scientific use would of course depend upon its execution ; but there might be a general utility in being able to turn to Rent, Taxation, Value, and so on, when ideas about the subject were desired. • Mr. Macleod's Dictionary will pass far beyond this limi- tation.' It will contain notiecs of men who have any, even very slender claims to the title of Political Economist; as Abbott, Lord Colchester appears, because he brought in a bill to establish the census, and made speeches in the House on financial subjects. The author will give ac- counts, as We understand him, of rare tracts and other little known writings, which contain views of political economy that were before their age. Materials will thus be furnished to trace the progress of the science ; for the " historical" of the title seems to refer to an intended Prelimi- nary Dissertation. The "practical" will, we imagine, extend to an exposition of certain businesses, as "banking."

The "biographical" and "bibliographical" portions may possibly be overdone, but it strikes us that they will form the most valuable portions of the book. Mr. Macleod's industry, reading, powers of work, with a laW yer's command of facts and dexterity of statement, will stand him in good stead in these sections. The next hest part will be his practical account of business. We do not look for much from his scientific expositions; if they are to be (as doubtless they will be) of a similar kind to the political economy, prefixed to his treatise on banking. It is expected that the work will be completed in fifteen parts. The first part terminates with an unfinished account of" Banking in England."